Telecom Sector Analysis for June Quarter – Severe Decline In ARPU, MOU But Growth Continues

by | posted: October 9, 2009
The boom phase for Indian telecom sector continues to ride on availability of cheaper telecom services at the same time aggressive marketing by new and established players. The growth phase is panning...
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RCom Introduces Universal Plan, Local And STD calls At 50 paise

by | posted: October 6, 2009
Indian Telecom Users are burdened with numerous plans and hidden tariffs. Reliance Communication seems to have adapted new strategy to take care of such anomalies and thus would be charging similar voice...
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RCom Inching Closer To Seal M-commerce Deal With Atom

by | posted: September 16, 2009
M-Commerce has been the buzzword off-late. The Mobi-payment companies are bringing innovations in facilitating m-commerce in India.  Business Standard reports that Reliance Communication may be inching...
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GSM Shows A Marginal Dip In August Subscriptions

by | posted: September 12, 2009
After a brief pick up in the GSM subscribers in the month of July, August showed just a marginal dip over the previous months. Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) data shows that the total...
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Tata Indicom To Charge Flat Charge Per Call. Is This A Risky Strategy?

by | posted: September 2, 2009
Tata Teleservices has been on an agressive footing in the past few months. First, they made an aggressive foray into the GSM segment to launch Tata Docomo. They caught the imagination of the target audience...
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Reliance Soft Launches GSM Service. Targets 25% Market Share On Debut

by | posted: September 29, 2008
Company has been giving. The company has distributed around 10,000 test SIM cards to its employees. RCom has invested around Rs.800 crore and erected 2500 towers. By mid-December, the company plans to...
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GSM Operators’ Lobby to take TRAI to Court

by | posted: August 20, 2008
Apparently, there’s trouble brewing in India’s telecom sector as the leading GSM operators in the country plan to take the country’s telecom regulator TRAI to court. And as it seems,...
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Updated : DoT Might Reconsider Directives to allow Auctions for the 800MHz band for 3G CDMA

by | posted: August 13, 2008
Updated (August 18, 2008) : Department of Telecommunications has finally decided to review its guidelines if it feels that the current guidelines lead to monopoly in the current CDMA sector in India....
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DoT now eyes the Idea-Spice Mobile Deal

by | posted: July 22, 2008
  The Department of Telecom (DoT) folks have been having numerous sleepless nights lately, with all the activity that has been happening in the telecom industry of India.   A lot has been happening...
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TRAI Directs Other GSM Operators To Give Link To RCom

by | posted: July 16, 2008
RCom (formerly Reliance Communication) has been trying to get a GSM license, that’s old news. The more interesting news (yess!) is that the rest of the GSM operators had refused to provide...
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Rock Bottom Call Rates encourage Indians to chuck SMS

by | posted: July 8, 2008
    With over 277 million mobile subscribers, India is one of the fastest growing mobile market in the world. It has one of the lowest call rates in the world, even when the market is dominated...
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3G CDMA Rollout in Jeopardy – No Spectrum Available!

by | posted: June 23, 2008
  Now, this will come as a slap in the face of all telecom majors [both global as well as local] tripping over each other to get a foothold in the Indian telecom market. According to Telecom Regulatory...
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Shyam telelink Gets CDMA Spectrum For Maharshtra and Kerela Circle.

by | posted: May 15, 2008
According to this article in The Hindu Business Line Shyam Telelink has been allocated the spectrum to start CDMA service in Maharashtra. Shyam Telelink is partly owned by Russian conglomerate Sistema.   Shyam...
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Qualcomm Plans To Offer 3G USB Ports For Rs.3500

by | posted: April 28, 2008
The United States based makers of the CDMA platform, Qualcomm said that it plans to offer chips for 3G telecom services at ultra-low prices in India. The company plans to offer the Internet Access Device...
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Virgin and Tata – Losing the Virginity

by | posted: March 4, 2008
  That Richard Branson’s Virgin group had plans to enter India was knows for a while now. The entry is announced now. Virgin will be entering India in collaboration with Tata Teleservices. Virgin...
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Now Give Your Mock Entrance Tests On Tata Indicom Mobile!

by | posted: January 25, 2008
In one of my recent posts, I have discussed about IIT lectures on YouTube, this made it go international. But was unable to reach the small towns and villages where Internet is still can not be accessed....
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